160GB HDD not seen in WinXP Explorer

[Voitec]

Hi,

OS = Win XP SP1
HDD = 160GB Seagate 8MB

I'm aware of the 137GB limit issue and I have read the MS KB article on
enabling lge drivet sppt. The HDD is seen by the BIOS and is seen by XP's
Computer Management. However, it is not showing up in Explorer.

It was NTFS formatted in a different PC running Win2K and it worked there
fine. It was also set up as a Dynamic Disk.

This HDD is now in a differemt city as it was a friend's of mine and he flew
out yesterday. We do not really want to format it again. He took it to 3 PC
dealers and none of them could see the data. It was suggested that because
the HDD was formatted as a Dynamic disk then this stops it from being read
on other systems; some security reasons were given for this. Is there any
truth to this???

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
V

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hi,

OS = Win XP SP1
HDD = 160GB Seagate 8MB

I'm aware of the 137GB limit issue and I have read the MS KB article
on enabling lge drivet sppt. The HDD is seen by the BIOS and is seen
by XP's Computer Management. However, it is not showing up in
Explorer.

It was NTFS formatted in a different PC running Win2K and it worked
there fine. It was also set up as a Dynamic Disk.

This HDD is now in a differemt city as it was a friend's of mine and
he flew out yesterday. We do not really want to format it again. He
took it to 3 PC dealers and none of them could see the data. It was
suggested that because the HDD was formatted as a Dynamic disk then
this stops it from being read on other systems; some security reasons
were given for this. Is there any truth to this???

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
V

A couple of check points.

If this is XP Home, you cannot use a dynamic disk on this version of XP.

If the status of the dynamic disk is showing as "foreign" do this:

Open Disk Management and right click the dynamic drive, select Import
Foreign Disks from the menu. This should make the volume visible.

 

[Microsoft Preferred Customer]

What exactly do you want to do with the Hard Disk? If you want to copy the data
somewhere else then I suggest download BartPE CD Bootable disk which can by pass
Windows XP and also be able to read NTFS disks. the link is here:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

The program is very similar to Microsoft's WindowsPE but Microsoft is not
releasing it to the general public.

Try it and let us know. You don't have to install anything; Just burn the
downloadable CD Image and boot up from it.

HTh